Website Go Live Checklist

When you're about to go live with a website, there are a number of things you need to check to make sure that the website is ready for the public. This checklist will help you to make sure that you've covered all the bases before you launch your website.

#Table of Contents

• SEO
• Testing
• Performance
• Accessibility
• Security
• Error Handling
• Analytics
• Backups
• URL Management

#SEO

• [ ] SEO meta data
  • [ ] Title
  • [ ] Description
  • [ ] Keywords
  • [ ] Open Graph
  • [ ] Twitter Card
  • [ ] Schema.org
• [ ] Create RSS Feed
• [ ] Create robots.txt
• [ ] XML Sitemap
• [ ] Verify external and internal links
• [ ] Review HTML headers on page
• [ ] Add alt text to images

#Testing

• [ ] Write tests for all pages
• [ ] Review page responsive
• [ ] Test website on different browsers

#Performance

• [ ] Check performance
  • [ ] https://web.dev/explore/learn-core-web-vitals
  • [ ] https://web.dev/explore/metrics
  • [ ] https://web.dev/explore/fast
  • [ ] https://web.dev/explore/reliable
  • [ ] Check HTTP cache
  • [ ] Lighthouse score needs to be 100
• [ ] Check core web vitals

#Accessibility

• [ ] Ensure website is accessible (e.g., WCAG compliance)
  • [ ] https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/
  • [ ] https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/checklist/

#Security

• [ ] Redirect www/non-www & http/https versions
• [ ] Create SSL certificate
• [ ] Set up security monitoring

#Error Handling

• [ ] Build the 404 page
• [ ] Build the 500 page
• [ ] Set up error tracking, monitoring and logging

#Analytics

• [ ] Set up analytics

#Backups

• [ ] Set up backups

#URL Management

• [ ] Ensure old URLs redirect to new URLs